Speakers

• Lena Aahlby, Issues Director, Greenpeace International
• Mauricio Adade, President Nutrition & Health, DSM Nutritional Products
• Weber Amaral, Professor; President, National Brazil BioFuels Programme
• Werner Arber, Professor; Nobel, Medicine 1978
• Gilles Avenard, Director General, BioAlliance Pharma
• Jean-Francois Bach, Professor; Permanent Secretary, Académies des Sciences
• Joanne Baker, Editor, Space and Earth Science, Science Magazine
• René Baston, Vice President, Business Development, New York Academy of Sciences
• Christian Béchon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Laboratoire du Fractionnement et des Biotechnologies
• Bernard Bigot, High Commissioner, French Atomic Energy Commission
• René Billaz, President, Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans Frontières
• Tracey Brown, Director, Sense About Science
• Christian Cailliot, Director of Scientific Partnerships, Amgen
• Jeremy Carver, Chief Executive Officer, International Consortium Anti-Virals
• Margaret Catley-Carlson, Chair, Global Water Partnership; Board of Trustees, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
• Yves Champey, Chairman, Drug and Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)
• Margaret Chan, Director General, World Health Organization
• Anil Chauhan, Vice President Business Development, Avestha Gengraine Technologies Pvt Ltd.
• Nordine Cheikh, Program Director for the Biotech Trait Development Pipeline Group, Monsanto
• Jacques Cholat, President, sanofi pasteur International
• Gérard Collomb, Mayor of Lyon
• Bertrand Collomb, Chairman, Lafarge
• Lori Conlan, Programme Manager, Science Alliance, New York Academy of Sciences
• Alice Dautry, Executive Director, Institut Pasteur
• Jean-François Dehecq, Chairman, sanofi-aventis
• Philippe Desmarescaux, Chairman of the Organizing Committee, BioVision
• Salif Diallo, Minister of Agriculture, Burkina Faso
• Jorgen Dirach,Chairman, EFB Section on Medicines Development, Novo Nordisk
• Peter Doherty, Nobel, Medicine 1996; Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Melbourne
• Amir Dossal, Executive Director, United Nations Office for Partnerships
• Christian de Duve, Professor; Nobel Medicine 1974 (Read Prof. de Duve's abstract)
• Adel El-Beltagy, Professor; Chair, Global Forum on Agricultural Research
• Menachem Elimelech, Professor; Director, Environmental Engineering Program, Yale University
• Richard R. Ernst, Professor; Nobel Chemistry 1991 (Read Prof. Ernst's abstract)
• Malin Falkenmark, Professor; Stockholm International Water Institute
• Rodney Finalle, Founder & Director, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Alliance for International Medicine
• Edmond H. Fischer, Professor; Nobel Medicine 1992 (Read Prof. Fischer's abstract)
• Christophe Fournier, President, MSF International (Nobel Peace 1999)
• Emile Frison, Director General, Bioversity International
• Richard Gardner, Edward Penley Abraham, Research Professor of the Royal Society, University of Oxford
• Kul Chandra Gautam, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF
• James Geraghty, Senior Vice President, Genzyme
• Marc Girard, Honorary Professor, Denis Diderot University
• Jean-Michel Gires, Director, Sustainable Development and Environment, Total
• Luis Gomez-Echeverri, Deputy Director for UNDP's Bureau for Development Policy
• James Greenwood, President & Chief Executive Officer, BIO
• Jean-Marc Grognet, Scientific Director, Technological Research Division, CEA
• François Gros, Professor; Honorary Permanent Secretary, French Academy of Sciences; Chairman, Scientific Committee of BioVision
• François Guillemin, General Manager, LyonBioPôle
• Roger Guillemin, Professor; Nobel Medicine 1977 (Read Prof. Guillemin's abstract)
• Ian Gust, Professor, Professorial fellow, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Melbourne; former Director, Research & Development, CSL Ltd.
• Rebbie Harawa, Millennium Village coordinator
• Mohamed Hassan, Professor; President, Third World Academy of Sciences
• Robert Hecht, Senior Vice President, Public Policy, IAVI
• Véronique Hervouet, BioMass & Symfuel Development Manager, Total
• Masa Iwanaga, Director General, International Maize & Wheat Improvement Center, CIMMYT
• Birte Holst Joergensen, Managing Director, Nordic Energy Research
• Jack Huttner, Vice President Biorefinery Business Development, Genencor
• Yves Kameli, Member of the Board, Action Against Hunger
• Hans Kast, Chairman & CEO, EuropaBio; Chairman & CEO, BASF
• Alastair Kent, Director, Genetic Interest Group
• John Kilama, President, Global Bioscience Development Institute
• Lise Kingo, Executive Vice President and Chief of Staffs, Novo Nordisk
• Bernard Kouchner, former Health Minister; former U.N. Representative in Kosovo
• Philippe Kourilsky, Professor; Collège de France and former Director General of the Institut Pasteur
• Peter H. Krammer, Head of Tumorimmunology Program, German Cancer Research Center
• Alain Labouze, Editor in Chief, Sciences Actualités, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie
• Vincent Leclercq, Physician & Catholic Ethicist, Catholic Institute of Paris
• Li Fengting, Professor, Tongji University
• Maria Livanos Cattaui, member of the Board of Directors, Petroplus Holdings AG; former Secretary-General, International Chamber of Commerce
• Jane Lubchenco, Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology, Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University
• Michael Mack, COO Seeds, Syngenta
• Magdy Madkour, Professor; Head of Biotechnology, Arid Lands Agricultural Research Institute, Ain Shams University
• Diran Makinde, Professor of Animal Science; Member of the Board of Directors, AfricaBio
• Jacques-François Martin, President, Parteurop; former President, The Vaccine Fund
• Mike May, IPBO, University of Gent
• Malebona Matsoso, Director of Cooperation for Essential Drugs, World Health Organization
• Federico Mayor, Professor; former Director General, UNESCO, President, Fundacion Cultura de Paz
• Emmo Meijer, Professor; Senior Vice President, Unilever Foods R&D
• Jeff Miller, Vice President, Hewlett Packard
• Jean-François Minster, Scientific Director, Total
• Benoit Miribel, Director General, Fondation Mérieux
• Pat Mooney, Executive Director, ETC Group
• Michael Oborne, Director, Advisory Unit on Multi-Disciplinary Issues, OECD
• Raymond Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America
• Ruth Oniang'O, Kenyan Member of Parliament; Professor
• Peter Paradiso, Vice President, New Business Development, Wyeth
• Christian Patermann, Director, Biotechnologies & Agribusiness, European Commission
• Prabhu Pingali, Director, Agricultural & Development Economics Division, FAO
• Janez Potocnik, European Commissioner for Science and Research
• Michael Pragnell, CEO, Syngenta
• Henri Proglio, Chairman and CEO, Veolia Environment
• Zhou Qi, Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Andrea Rappagliosi, Vice President Public Policy & Goverment Relations Europe, Merck Serono SA
• Nicolas Renard, Deputy Director, Institutional Relations, Veolia Water
• Franck Riboud, Chairman and CEO, Danone
• Steen Riisgaard, CEO, Novozymes
• Johan Rockström, Professor; Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute
• Henri Rouillé d'Orfeuil, President, Coordination Sud
• Joanna Rubinstein, Director of Strategic Programmes, Earth Institute, Columbia University
• Jeffrey D. Sachs, Professor; Director Earth Institute at Columbia University, Director of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Project
• Aymeric Sallin, Founder and Managing Partner, NanoDimension
• Bengt Samuelsson, Professor; Nobel Medicine 1982 (Read Prof. Samuelsson's abstract)
• Joachim Schneider, Head of BioScience, Bayer
• Ismail Serageldin, Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, former Vice President Special Programme, World Bank, Vice-Chairman, Sponsorship Committee of BioVision
• Seema Sharma, European Programme Director Next Wave from Science, Careers.org
• Feike Sijbesma, Managing Board of Directors, DSM
• John H. Smith, Deputy Secretary General, European University Association
• Francesco Songane, Director of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
• Gerald A. Steiner, Executive Vice President, Monsanto
• John E. Sulston, Professor; Nobel Medicine 2002 (read Prof. Sulston's abstract)
• Christopher Surridge, Managing Editor, Public Library of Open Science
• Erik Tambuyzer, Senior Vice President, Genzyme
• Patrick Terry, President, International Genetic Alliance
• Hervé This, Chemist, French National Institute for Agricultural Research; Scientific Director, Food Science and Culture Foundation
• Sven Thormahlen, Executive Vice President, Research & Development, Danone
• Jennifer A. Thomson, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Cape Town University
• Yuji Tokumasu, Director of the Bio-Industry Division, Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry, Japan
• Francis Vella, Eurodoc, Clinical Sciences Center
• Paulus Verschuren, Senior Director, Partnership Development, Unilever Foods
• Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson, Professor; President, Karolinska Institutet (Read Prof. Wallberg-Henriksson's abstract)
• Alexander Wessels, Business Group Director, DSM Food Specialties
• Keith Wiebe, Chief of the Comparative Agricultural Development Service, Food & Agriculture Organisation
• Mark Wiesner, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University
• Kurt Wüthrich, Professor; Nobel Chemistry 2002 (Read Prof. Wüthrich's abstract)
• Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Professor; President, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
• Elias A. Zerhouni, Director, National Institutes of Health
• Daniel Zimmer, Executive Director, World Water Council